Card game.



PATENTED MAY 22, 1906.

J. G. A. FORTIER.

CARD GAME.

APFLIUATION FILED MAYze, 1904` Jan JFowi-em Jtt own ey sunirsi) sTATEsPATENT OFFICE.

CARD GAME.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application led May 26,1904. Serial No. 209,861.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JEAN G. A. FORTIER, a citizen of the United Statesof America, and a resident of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey andState of Minnesota, have invented certaininew and useful Improvements inCard Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in card games, and has for itsobject a game that is novel, amusing, and which possesses the variousfeatures to be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing is illustrated a pack of cards embodying myinvention and arranged in groups or suits of any suitable number such asten in each group and face up, as shown.

The cards of each group bear` upon their faces aname or designation,such as Wheat, Corn, Barley, Rye, or Oats." Each name or designation isdistinctive of the cards of one group and differs from the'Y names ordesignations of the cards of all the other groups. Numbers or charactersdisposed upon the face of all the cards of each group indicate thepermanent value of that group.v The numerals on the faces of each groupof cards differ in that the units run consecutively from O to 9,inclusive, while the tens are all alike. The tens of each group aredifferent from the tens of all the other groups.

In playing the game the number of groups of cards used is the same asthe number of players. The cards are dealt equally around among theplayers. Each'player then draws a card from his or her left-handneighbor, the cards thus drawn being the ruling-figures of the firstgame. Preferably the ruling-card is below the permanent figure 67--vi.z. below j) I( 66,7) H 76,7) ((86177 96.)] al player gets one overthese numbers he has the right to draw from his neighbor until he getsany of said numbers or below. The player having the highestruling-figure card is the first dealer. cards, each a card in rotation,the dealer having the privilege to deal the cards to right or left tosuit himself and also to compel his right or left player to draw one tothree cards of his own, so as to change his standing, all

Each player then receives five cards being drawn face downward. The nextplayer will also discard in the same manner, and so on until all theplayers have done so. Each player then compares his cards with hisruling-figure in such game and tallies on a record-board loss or gainaccordingly. The cards are then put back in a pack and dealt around inthe same manner until a number of points are recorded, forty-iive pointsbeing the winning score. The first player reaching that number becomesthe record winner. The record winner then draws one card from theremaining cards in the pack to decide his own luck. If said card is ofhis own ruling-card, he wins the game, (or all chips.) If this card isother than his ruling-card, then the bearer of said card gets one-halfof the chips. The record-winner also has the option to offer each playera certain part of his chips in case he prefers not to risk losingone-half of them on the draw. The game can be changed in its number ofpoints according to the desire of the players, and it is obvious thatthe number of cards and designations. or the characters on the suits canbe changed without departing from the spirit of this invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire toprotect by Letters Patent, is-

Game apparatus, comprising a deck of cards, all of said cards beingnumbered consecutively and necessary to complete a series and dividedinto groups, each group comprising an equal number of cards, each cardbearing upon its face a name common to all the cards of such group, suchname on the cards of one group diering from the names on the cards ofall the other groups, said numbers indicating the individual value ofeach card as distinguished from every other card in the entire deck andhaving units and tens, said units differentiating the cards of eachgroup and said tens indicating the permanent value of the group.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JEAN G. A. FORTIER. Witnesses:

E. M. BoEsEL, F. G. BRADBURY.

